Events
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yi Lu — Garbage Time of History? Chinese Archives in the Era of Xi Jinping
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Yi Lu, Assistant Professor of History, Dartmouth CollegeDiscussant: Daniel Koss, Associate Senior Lecturer on East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University The Chinese internet has recently been captivated by
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Ma Xinrong — Migration Pathway, Precariousness and Migration Control: the Case of Irregular Migrants From the Philippines and Myanmar to China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: MA Xinrong, Associate Professor, Sun Yat-sen University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Meg Rithmire, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School China, emerging as a new destination
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Asia and Asians at Harvard Conference
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesHarvard’s enduring engagement with Asia has shaped scholarly inquiry, public policy, and campus life—within the University and across the region. This two-day conference convenes faculty, students, alumni, and institutional partners
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Films from the Film Study Center: Screening and Conversation
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPlease join us, in partnership with ArtsThursdays, for a special screening of short films by Darol Olu Kae, Kendra McLaughlin, Tiff Rekem, and Svetlana Romanova—current fellows at the Film Study Center
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Wang Junqi — The Evolution of Iconography Associated with the Great Compassion Mantra
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: WANG Junqi, Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Religious Theory; Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, Renmin University of China; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Parimal Patil, Professor
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Once Burned, Twice Shy: A Conversation on U.S.- China Trade with Ambassador Katherine Tai
Hall D, Science Center 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Ambassador Katherine C. Tai, U.S. Trade Representative (2021-2025)Moderator: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Join us
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Domee Shi — Drawing from Life: Storytelling, Heritage, and Turning the Personal into the Universal
Radcliffe Knafel Center 10 Garden St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Domee Shi, Academy Award–Winning Director, Writer, and Storyteller; Creative Vice President, PixarDiscussant: Ju Yon Kim, Patsy Takemoto Mink Professor of English, Harvard University Join the Academy Award–winning director, animator, and
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Aaron Halegua — Fighting Forced Labor on U.S. Soil: Litigation on Behalf of Chinese Workers
WCC 3008, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Aaron Halegua, Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs, Wang v. Gold Mantis Construction and Liu v. Wellmade Industries Aaron Halegua leads a boutique litigation firm in New York City focused on labor and employment litigation,
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Chuncheng Liu — Metricocracy: The Data and Symbolic Politics of a Chinese Social Credit System
William James Hall, Room 1550 33 kirkland st, cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Chuncheng Liu, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Northeastern University Numbers have become the universal language of modern governance. What happens when an authoritarian state attempts to quantify the moral
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Weila Gong — Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Weila Gong, University of California-San Diego Why are some Chinese cities more successful than others in initiating and implementing low-carbon policy actions? Despite being the world’s largest carbon emitter, China
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Zong-Rong Lee — Kinship, Business Elite and the Market in Contemporary Taiwan
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Zong-Rong LEE, Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Frank Dobbin, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University In the fields
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Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar Presentations: Culture Wars and Philosophical Debates in East Asia and China
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesFeaturing presentations by two Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars who will share current research. Each short talk will be followed by Q and A discussion. The Cultural Cold War: Moral Re-Armament